For windows XP, I've had the best success with RealVNC. Anything will work fine on a lan, but I do hate VNC over most internet connections. TightVNC has always been really flaky for me, sometimes allowing a connection and sometimes not.

For windows 7, I really like the built-in remote desktop. Open up a windows 7 VM, start up the remote desktop client, and it's the best remote connection for Windows I have seen.

++ for remote desktop for windows 7/vista. Never had any problems, works great. I've had better luck with it than with any of the VNCs._________________Cats are deadly animals. If you stick your nose up their crotch and snort their piss, THEY CAN KILL YOU!!!

For windows XP, I've had the best success with RealVNC. Anything will work fine on a lan, but I do hate VNC over most internet connections. TightVNC has always been really flaky for me, sometimes allowing a connection and sometimes not.

For windows 7, I really like the built-in remote desktop. Open up a windows 7 VM, start up the remote desktop client, and it's the best remote connection for Windows I have seen.

Any particular reason you don't like Remote Desktop in Windows XP, but you do like it in Windows 7?

For windows XP, I've had the best success with RealVNC. Anything will work fine on a lan, but I do hate VNC over most internet connections. TightVNC has always been really flaky for me, sometimes allowing a connection and sometimes not.

For windows 7, I really like the built-in remote desktop. Open up a windows 7 VM, start up the remote desktop client, and it's the best remote connection for Windows I have seen.

Any particular reason you don't like Remote Desktop in Windows XP, but you do like it in Windows 7?

It's been a long time, but I remember it being very unreliable for making remote connections. I guess there's been a lot of updates since then, and after looking at KB969084, it seems that XP now uses the same RDP server as windows 7. I try to avoid XP as much as I can, so I had no idea, and hope I never have to use it.

I can't believe how much better this is than anything on the *nix side. At least that I've seen. VNC is a big pile of doo doo. One of the weakest areas in the *nix world._________________lolgov. 'cause where we're going, you don't have civil liberties.

On premise RHUB or Bomgar appliances are best for remotely accessing computers from anywhere. Other options are logmein, gosupportnow, GoToMyPC etc. hosted services for remotely accessing MAC or Windows computers.

I can't believe how much better this is than anything on the *nix side. At least that I've seen. VNC is a big pile of doo doo. One of the weakest areas in the *nix world.

It used to be the best and almost only game in town. The X server/client architecture is pretty nice, if you live in the 70s and 80s.

These days I usually launch GUI applications on my server via SSH, using mobaxterm. It's a nice cygwin/sshclient/xserver combo for windows and no charge unless you want to customise it. So if I want to, say, launch the virtualbox GUI, I open it up, ssh -Y user@server.foo and just launch it from there. It starts like a "native" windows application.

You can do the same thing on any nix machine you have a gui on, just open a terminal and ssh to the machine.

Not remote desktop, but good still._________________Someone asked me once if I suffered from mental illness. I told him I enjoyed every second of it.
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Cygwin seems to do well enough when I need to go that route. Some people at work use mobaxterm... I only learned about it a week or two ago, but haven't tried it yet._________________lolgov. 'cause where we're going, you don't have civil liberties.